报告题目: Water Constraints on Food Security

报告人：Maria Cristina Rulli

报告时间：2019年06月04日 上午10:00

报告地点：地理资源所A901会议室

报告人简介：

Maria Cristina Rulli is Associate Professor of Hydrology at the Politecnicodi Milano, Italy. Her research focuses on the mutual interaction between hydrological processes and human activity. She has investigated the effects of anthropogenic and natural disturbances such as land use change, climate change, forest fires, and new infrastructures on both the hydrological response and sediment yield of a variety of watersheds at different spatial and temporal scales. Recently, she has been investigating the impact of climate change, urbanization, deforestation, land degradation, population growth, changes in food consumption, changes in energy policies on the management of water and other natural resources. Her work has analyzed the effect of environmental externalities, interdependencies and teleconnections on natural resources availability. Inparticular, she has focused on the emergent phenomenon of transnational Large-Scale Land Acquisitions (LSLAs) and its implication for water, energy and food security. Her work has helped to define and quantify the global phenomenon of “water grabbing” and explored its impacts on water governance, rural livelihoods, and the emergence of water conflicts. She is currently investigating global water and food security and environmental sustainability issues using the Food-Energy-Water Nexus approach. She is studying the existing nexus between hydrological risk and food security. Specifically, she analyzes the direct effects of hydrologic extremes (e.g., floods, droughts, landslides, hurricanes, typhoons) on food production and availability and the cascades effects on conflicts and human migrations occurrence. Her most recent research also concentrates on the nexus between nutritional security and environmental resources, especially water, focusing, in particular, on food related diseases.  

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